Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1887-07-01
NEWS IN GENERAL.
DOMESTIC.

and honored friend" DR.. Parker will de,
liver the eulogy in Brooklyn in Oc oher
uext.
Dr. Edward h, Duggan of Brooklyn, N.
Y, was shot and killed by George Weidler
The Reading, Pa, iron works have sus-
pended operations throwing 1000 hands out
Of employment.
Blunt. the wife murderer, was hanged at
st. Louis,
President Cleveland has accepted the invi~
tation of Mr.. George W. Childs to be his
guest during the constitution centennial con-
vention in Philadelphia In September.
The 625 men employed at the Atlantic oil
refinery at Point Breeze, Pa, have struck
against the employment of Hungarians by
the company.
Gen. Absalom Baird aud Col. H. 9. Has,
brouok have been selected by Gen Sheridan
to attend the grand m litary manoeuvres in
France in September.
Forty masked men overpowered the jailer
at kosciuSko and took James NJ. Webb, a
white man to convenient place and hanged
poisoning his wife and the evidence was
strong against him.
The deed OF sale Of the Madison Square
Garden property in New York City 10 James
T. Woodward for 81, ,OO0, 600 bas been record
ed. building devoted to amusements will
be erected on the site of the present structure
The new three-hour liue from Boston to
New York is creating CONSERVATION In real
estate circles In New York, as It's plans con-
template inroads on valuable property. 1t
propos to have its depot at the southwest
ern corner Il Central Park.
In disastrous freight wreck on the Mis-.
souri, Pacific, eighteen cars were burned; loss,
$50 900.
The Berks county, Pa, grand jury, which
has been investigating frauds charged
against tax collectors, as returned indict-
ments against II collectors, all prominent
citizens for rmisappropriating and misusing
public funds, ranging in amount from $500
to $4,000, and aggregating $3), 900. 1t Is
thoug ht that about 81 others will also be in
dicted
Mr.. Bradley, the owner of Asbury Park,
n. j., has issued an order excluding colored
people from his board walk.
DR.. Reynolds, an examiner in the pension
office, has been knighted by the king of
Italy.
The deputy sheriff has been killed and
three prisoners have escaped from Jail at Mt.
Vernon, Mo.
Twenty-Five immigrants are held at New
York under the imported labor contract law.
Two government vessels have been ordered
to Honolulu to protect American interests in
Hawaii
fire at the Chicago Packing and Pro-
vision company's establishment created a
loss of 81, 25OO20.
Two colored men, father and son, from
Boston, Mass, took seats in frst>class
white car of tie Georgia railroads fast train
from Atlanta to Augusta The conductor
requested them 10 take seats in the car pro-
Vided for colored people, which they refused
to do until ashow of force was made to eject
them, when they took seats assigned to them
| by the conductor.
! The boiler Of the Standard oil refinery
at Lima, O., exploded, wrecking the builds
ing and burying thu engineer in the debris,
Fire broke out in the mines at Virginia,
New, imprisoning sixteen men who are all
supposed to be dead.
A Aspecial from Coshocton, O., says that
William U. Bucklew, assistant postmaster
at Coshocton, was arrested on charge of
being short 10 his accounts with the govern"
ment The amount charged against him is
$1,000.
A fire in the Puck building, New York,
causes loss Of S45, 900.
James Faulkner, the celebrated wrestler.
has been engaged as instructor in the art of
wrestling by the Olympic Club Of San Fran
cisco.
Secretary Whitney of the navy has been
elected a member of the Columbia Boat
Club Of Washington.
H. A. Hazen of the signal office, who was
the scientific man in the Worlds recent short
balloon trip from st. Louis, says it is all ga
mistake about the voyagers in the air ship
having had narrow escape with their live 8,
and that the thrilling story Of the fall of the
balloon was due to the exaggerated sensa>
tions of a novice who wrote the account.
The results Of the voyage, he says, will prove
very valuable The scientific experiments
were the most successful Of the kind ever
made They succeeded in measuring the
humidity Of the air at great distance from
tho earth, thing never before accom-
plished.
At a riot at Oak Ridge, La, two .white
men and six negroes were killed.
more & Ohio road John Jennings, engineer,
killed.
The business portion Of the town Of Pull
man, Wash, has been destroyed by fire; loss
estimated at $50, coo.
BY a big fire at Marshfield, Wis, nearly
all of the business portion was destroyed
loss already placed at $l,000O00.
Policemen fire into mob of strikers at
Rochester, N. Y. one man reported killei
Beneficial effects are reported of the new
postal convention with Mexico. Minister
Romero says it will greatly enlarge trade
and enhance good feeling.
Collector Magone has decided that the 1s
French silk weavers, who arrived under con-
tract to work tor Jersey City party, must
return to France
Pinkerton men are engaged to guard the
coke works in the Connellsvile region.
mountain Of coal has been discovered in